CONTENTS

Foreword by Robert Wagner

Prologue

Part I WATERFRONT TO COURTROOM

1 Debate Champ

2 “Presto! A Celebrity”

Part II MASTER PLAN

3 The Sweater Girl

4 Two Godfathers

5 The Sarong Girl

Part III WAR

6 The Spy Who Loved Him

7 Lieutenant Commander, USN

Part IV PLAYERS

8 Toe to Toe with Bugsy Siegel

9 Lover Dearest

10 Divorce of the Century

11 Change Partners and Dance

12 The Bergman Sequel

13 Battling Bogie

Part V EMINENCE

14 An Elegant Wife

15 The Richest Client in the World

16 Billionaire Secrets

17 When Stars Call It Quits

18 The Hearst Proxy

19 Joseph Schenck Enterprises

20 The Breakup

Part VI KINGMAKER

21 Inventing Robert Evans

22 Kirk Kerkorian Buys MGM

23 The Big Firm

24 The Love of Her Life

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Appendix A: Bautzer’s Clients

Appendix B: Bautzer’s Leading Ladies

Notes

Bibliography

Index